Venue
Embassy Suites Atlanta at Centennial Olympic Park Hotel
Embassy Suites Atlanta at Centennial Olympic Park Hotel, 267 Marietta St NW, Atlanta, GA 30313, United States

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Event Date Tue Mar 5 EST - Thu Mar 7 EST (9 months ago)
Location Embassy Suites Atlanta at Centennial Olympic Park Hotel
267 Marietta St NW, Atlanta, GA 30313, United States
Region Americas
Details

This premier marcus evans conference will provide attendees with lessons learned from recent storms, wildfires, and incidents to more safely, efficiently, and effectively improve outage response and emergency management planning, preparation, and execution. Attendees with hear from experienced utility executives and leaders on streamlining outage and crisis communications, maximizing drills and exercises, utilizing post incident analysis, ensuring effective resource management, and leveraging grid hardening strategies and advanced tools and analytics to prevent outages and mitigate their effects. Finally, the conference will cover key strategies to prepare for the many threats and challenges to today’s grid, including climate change, cyber and physical threats, costs and benefits to undergrounding, preventative de-energizing (Public Safety Power Shutoffs), and more!

Speakers

2024 Speakers

Antoinette Benson
Program Manager, Emergency Preparedness and Business Continuity, Sacramento Municipal Utility District

Greg Eddy
Lead Program Manager, Emergency Planning, National Grid

Alisha Khan
Senior Manager, Emergency Management and Business Continuity, Hydro One

Nora Yotsov
Director, Emergency Mangement, Pacificorp

Matthew Khaled
Manager, Emergency Preparedness, PSEG

Joe Weathersby
North East Division Manager, T&D, Arizona Public Service

Liz Pratt
Manger, External Communications and Media Relations, PPL

Sandy Buzzard
Product Manager, Duke Energy

David Wasson
Senior Manager, Regional Distribution Operations, Entergy

Gareth Stamp
Senior Manager, PSPS Electric Program Management, PG&E

Valerie Dammann
Manager, Emergency Preparedness, UAS Program Manager, ComEd

Stephen Parenteau
Manager, Emergency Planning, Rhode Island Energy

Mona Freels
Emergency Services Manager, SDG&E

Phil Kanagy
GM, Aviation Services, Tennessee Valley Authority

Rosie Ybarra
Emergency Management and Business Continuity Professional, Former CPS Energy

Tonya Ngotel
Manager, Emergency Preparedness, Omaha Public Power District

Michael McCallan
Business Development and Consulting, Storm Services LLC

Sponsors & Partners

2024 Sponsors

• MTV Solutions
• Storm Services
• KNX
• Data Capable
• Macro